| Preface | 4 |
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| Authors’ Forewords | 5 |
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| Sixth German Edition | 5 |
| Fifth German Edition | 5 |
| Fourth German Edition | 6 |
| Editors’ Foreword | 8 |
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| Background | 8 |
| Structure of the Third English Edition | 9 |
| Translation Issues | 11 |
| Acknowledgements | 13 |
| Contents | 14 |
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| 1 | 19 |
| Introduction | 19 |
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| 1.1 The Engineering Designer | 19 |
| 1.2 Necessity for Systematic Design | 27 |
| 2 | 44 |
| Fundamentals | 44 |
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| 2.1 Fundamentals of Technical Systems | 44 |
| 2.2 Fundamentals of the Systematic Approach | 62 |
| 3 | 80 |
| Product Planning, Solution Finding and Evaluation | 80 |
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| 3.1 Product Planning | 80 |
| 3.2 Solution Finding Methods | 94 |
| 3.3 Selection and Evaluation Methods | 123 |
| 4 | 142 |
| Product Development Process | 142 |
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| 4.1 General Problem Solving Process | 142 |
| 4.2 Flow ofWork During the Process of Designing | 145 |
| 4.3 Effective Organisation Structures | 155 |
| 5 | 161 |
| Task Clarification | 161 |
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| 5.1 Importance of Task Clarification | 161 |
| 5.2 Setting Up a Requirements List (Design Specification) | 162 |
| 5.3 Using Requirements Lists | 169 |
| 5.4 Practical Application of Requirements Lists | 173 |
| 6 | 175 |
| Conceptual Design | 175 |
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| 6.1 Steps of Conceptual Design | 175 |
| 6.2 Abstracting to Identify the Essential Problems | 177 |
| 6.3 Establishing Function Structures | 185 |
| 6.4 DevelopingWorking Structures | 197 |
| 6.5 Developing Concepts | 206 |
| 6.6 Examples of Conceptual Design | 215 |
| 7 | 242 |
| Embodiment Design | 242 |
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| 7.1 Steps of Embodiment Design | 242 |
| 7.2 Checklist for Embodiment Design | 248 |
| 7.3 Basic Rules of Embodiment Design | 249 |
| 7.4 Principles of Embodiment Design | 283 |
| 7.5 Guidelines for Embodiment Design | 323 |
| 7.6 Evaluating Embodiment Designs | 431 |
| 7.7 Example of Embodiment Design | 432 |
| 7.8 Detail Design | 451 |
| 8 | 454 |
| Mechanical Connections, Mechatronics and Adaptronics | 454 |
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| 8.1 Mechanical Connections | 454 |
| 8.2 Mechatronics | 463 |
| 8.3 Adaptronics | 473 |
| 9 | 479 |
| Size Ranges and Modular Products | 479 |
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| 9.1 Size Ranges | 479 |
| 9.2 Modular Products | 509 |
| 9.3 Recent Rationalisation Approaches | 528 |
| 10 | 530 |
| Design for Quality | 530 |
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| 10.1 Applying a Systematic Approach | 530 |
| 10.2 Faults and Disturbing Factors | 534 |
| 10.3 Fault-Tree Analysis | 535 |
| 10.4 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) | 542 |
| 10.5 Quality Function Deployment (QFD) | 544 |
| 11 | 548 |
| Design forMinimum Cost | 548 |
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| 11.1 Cost Factors | 548 |
| 11.2 Fundamentals of Cost Calculations | 550 |
| 11.3 Methods for Estimating Costs | 552 |
| 11.4 Target Costing | 573 |
| 11.5 Rules forMinimising Costs | 574 |
| 12 | 576 |
| Summary | 576 |
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| 12.1 The Systematic Approach | 576 |
| 12.2 Experiences of Applying the Systematic Approach in Practice | 580 |
| References | 583 |
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| Chapter 1 | 583 |
| Chapter 2 | 589 |
| Chapter 3 | 591 |
| Chapter 4 | 594 |
| Chapter 5 | 595 |
| Chapter 6 | 595 |
| Chapter 7 | 596 |
| Chapter 8 | 607 |
| Chapter 9 | 608 |
| Chapter 10 | 610 |
| Chapter 11 | 611 |
| Chapter 12 | 613 |
| English Bibliography | 614 |
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| Conference Series | 618 |
| Journals | 619 |
| Index | 620 |